'Senator
Barack Obama's office has refused to deny that the Democratic nominee
attended Bilderberg last night following reports that he and Hillary
Clinton were present at "an event in Northern Virginia." As we reported
earlier today, Obama's press entourage were not informed of his secret
meeting with Hillary Clinton in Northern Virginia until they were
literally locked inside a plane that was taxiing down the runway on its
way to Chicago.'

'According
to news reports, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton went out of their way
to hold their long-awaited private meeting in a very specific location
- not at Hillary's mansion in Washington - but in Northern Virginia,
which also just happens to be the scene of the 2008 Bilderberg meeting.

Obama's
spokesman Robert Gibbs told the media that Obama and Clinton held a
private meeting last night but he refused to disclose where it taken
place, except that it was not at Clinton's home in Washington, as had
been widely reported. Hillary campaign managers also refused to
disclose the location of the rendezvous.'

'It
was particularly difficult this year to find out when and where the
annual conclave of world powerbrokers, the Bilderberg Group, would take
place. Finally, it appears certain that the highly secret meeting of
western political-military elites will take place from June 5 – 8 in
Chantilly, Virginia, near Washington, in a luxury hotel immersed in
nature, the Westfield’s Marriott.'

'Hillary
Clinton will withdraw from the race to become the Democratic candidate
for the US presidency, and back her rival Barack Obama, her campaign
says. On Tuesday, Mr Obama gained enough delegates to win the
nomination, after the final votes of the primary season. Mrs Clinton
has still not admitted in public that she lost the contest, but on
Saturday she will do so "and express her support for Senator Obama".'

'Barack
Obama has pledged unwavering support for Israel in his first foreign
policy speech since declaring himself the Democratic nominee for
president. He told the American Israel Public Affairs Committee
(Aipac), a prominent Jewish lobby, Israel's security was "sacrosanct"
and "non-negotiable". He also said he would do "everything" to stop
Iran getting a nuclear weapon.'

'In
what he called a "defining moment for our nation," Sen. Barack Obama on
Tuesday became the first African-American to head the ticket of a major
political party. Obama's steady stream of superdelegate endorsements,
combined with the delegates he received from Tuesday's primaries, put
him past the 2,118 threshold, CNN projects. "Tonight we mark the end of
one historic journey with the beginning of another -- a journey that
will bring a new and better day to America," he said.'

'An
unnamed expert believes that a nuclear explosion caused the recent 8.0
magnitude Sichuan earthquake in China, where three weeks after the
catastrophe the death toll has reached 69,000 plus. Overseas Chinese
website Boxun News reported that the expert confirmed there was a
nuclear explosion near the epicenter, based on witness reports and the
discovery of concrete rubble believed to have come from an underground
military installation.'